Question

How could I track changes of specific directory in UNIX? For example, I launch some utility which create some files during its execution. I want to know what exact files were created during one particular launch. Is there any simple way to get such information? Problem is that:

1. I cannot flush directory content after script execution
2. Files created with the name that has hash as a compound part. There is no possibility to get this hash from script for subsequent search.
3. There could be several scripts executed simultaneously, I do not want to see files created by another process in the same folder.

Please notice that I do not want to know whether directory has been changed as stated here, I need filenames which ideally could be grepped to match specific pattern.

Answer 1

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